Grounded-base transistor amplifier

Abstract

A grounded-base transistor amplifier including a pair of transistors which have the bases thereof grounded at a high frequency and the collectors thereof coupled to a signal output terminal, a high frequency transformer which includes a primary winding connected to a signal input terminal and a secondary winding equipped with a midpoint tap, both ends of the secondary winding being connected to the emitters of the transistors, and a constant-current circuit which is connected to the midpoint tap of the secondary winding and which produces a bias current flow through the transistors. Noise voltages generated by the constant-current circuit are supplied to the emitters of the transistors in the same phase via the secondary winding; therefore, no noise voltage appears at the signal output terminal.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.